Bunny Wailer - Crucial

A sufferer's song done up dancehall style, "Crucial's insistent rhythm, chanted litany of woes, and subtly infectious chorus, quickly proves contagious. Certainly the right wing Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) heard the possibilities, and used it - without Bunny Wailer's permission - for the campaign song.Incidentally, their opponents, the People's National Party (PNP) did the same to Bob Marley and his "Bad Card".In fact in the early Seventies, The Wailers had been keen PNP supporters, and campaigned on the party's behalf in the run- up to their election in 1972. By 1980, however, all three were entirely disillusioned not just with the PNP but with Jamaican politics across the board. That year saw the worst election violence in the island's history, with over a thousand citizens murdered in the run-up (some sources go as high as 1,400), and all the while "Crucial" and "Bad Card" blasted from opposite sides of the political divide.Ironically enough, Bunny's song was selected in order to illustrate the PNP's failed policies, his suffering meant to represent that of the entire island. Ironic, because upon winning the election the JLP instituted a sweeping program of free market "reforms" that swiftly threw tens of thousands out of work, raised prices on staple goods beyond the ability of most to pay for them, and dumped much of the population into even deeper poverty where they've remained ever since.

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• Bunny
• Wailer
• Crucial
• Reggae
• Roots
• Dancehall

[iluvmorrissey]

5* great song

[beyallluv]

This shit soooooo funky!!!!

[harrieplummie]

THIS ON WAS A GOOD ONE.BIG BIG CHUNE IN DEM TIMES.

[scorpian8king]

bless everyone below me and bless bunny wailer forever

[jamdasi]

"UUH!....Dis ya system, a crucially crucial, In ya dis a riddim, a crucially crucial...Am on the rock NOW, with no clothes on my back YOH, no shoes on my feet NOW, I've got noting to eat YO!!!...can't resist BOPPING your head, A BIG CHUNE Bunny!!

[sittingbull1903]

Big chune!!!

[daroyalgeneral]

very crucial tune!!

[PandaCommandos]

Bunny Wailer is a cool man, I respect him. Jah bless Nevil O' Riley!

[mrsuer626]

pass da chalice jah rastafari jah bless da herb

[donatithebest]

bunny wailer for eveeeeeeeeeer

[stokey72]

Then be what you want to be.

check out Blackheart man

and if you can get a Hebrew Bible

we are immortal souls with a body .not a body with a soul.

[miRasJamal]

no clothes no shoes nothing ti eat no flour no rice no beans! woahoy its crucial!

[swindonboy01]

I can play this tune over and over again.... What a perfect song for the soul...

[RightRocks]

I wish I was a rasta

[doigyredds]

"mek likkle wash"....!!! (dats poor people lemonade.) I have'nt heard that sayin' in a while. Bless & trod safe.

[MysticMan1944]

@EmpressHaras81

Don't forget the perfect LP "Blackheart Man"

[EmpressHaras81]

This is Bunny Wailer at his best, he has always been one of my fav reggae artist. I think he did his best work after Bob & Peter passed!

[kinglionsounds]

Long live Bunny....tell dem.

[makemecash1]

The world is Crucial.. eh Crucial.

Long Live Jah.  Bless.

[sonomaztlan]

nice work to the person who wrote up the "info" section

[steviesos36]

from sunsplash? i think .what year i wonder? thanks for this rare treat!

[vodooblack]

this here system